401(k) · DOL Form 5500 · 2023
Windstream Services LLC 401(k) Plan
Data updated 2026-08-25
- $1.2B
- Total assets Very large vs avg
- 10,991
- Participants Very large workforce
- 99th
- Percentile by assets National rank
- $111,916
- Avg per participant Below avg balance/head
Official DOL plan name: Windstream 401(k) Plan · Sponsored by Windstream Services LLC · Arkansas · Information & Media
$1.2B in assets, 10,991 participants
Windstream Services LLC's Windstream 401(k) Plan reported $1.2B in total assets and 10,991 participants in its 2023 DOL Form 5500 filing, ranking in the 99th percentile by assets among filed plans. Figures are as reported by the plan sponsor to the Department of Labor, not audited or endorsed by PlainRetire.
- #2,753 in Information & Media (2,818 peers)
Coverage in Arkansas
Windstream 401(k) Plan covers 10,991 participants in Arkansas, 3.9x the typical Arkansas plan (state average ~2,784 per filing). Assets: $1.2B.
- #2,753
- in Information & Media (2,818 peers)
- +11.8%
- assets growth YoY
- 12×
- vs typical plan assets (national mean)
Windstream 401(k) Plan's outsized position by total assets
Windstream 401(k) Plan vs every filed plan by assets
End-of-year total assets · plan year 2023 · DOL Form 5500
$1,230,072,939 Top 1% higher than 99% of 127,068 filed plans
Dashed line + filled bar = this entry, among filed plans.
Source U.S. Department of Labor Form 5500 filings (EBSA) · plan year 2023
Windstream 401(k) Plan's mega-plan peer group by participant headcount
Plan-year 2023 Form 5500 filings with a reported participant count, partitioned by headcount band, not by assets. Windstream 401(k) Plan is a mega filing (10,991 participants), the rightmost band on the breakdown.
What changed between DOL Form 5500 filings
plan year 2022 → plan year 2023
- Windstream 401(k) Plan reported net income rose from -$237M in the plan year 2022 filing to $131M in the plan year 2023 filing.
- Windstream 401(k) Plan end-of-year assets rose from $1.1B in the plan year 2022 filing to $1.2B in the plan year 2023 filing.
DOL schedule card
Filing strip 852049794 · Windstream Services LLC PY 2023 · 401(k)
Windstream 401(k) Plan · $1.2B · 10,991 · 99th
- SCH $1.2B
- EBSA 10,991
- PART 99th
- TYPE 401(k)
- NET near Promedica Health System, Inc. 401(k) Plan
- BOOK ind #2753
Stamps derive from this plan's Form 5500 line items (assets, participants, type, EIN, cohort placement) - not a quality rating of the sponsor. Read with Information & Media retirement plans → · Plans in Arkansas →
Windstream 401(k) Plan in the asset neighbourhood
Arkansas filing particulars
| Total Assets (Beginning of Year) | $1.1B |
|---|---|
| Net Assets (End of Year) | $1.2B |
| Net Income | $131M |
| Employer EIN | 852049794 |
| Plan Effective Date | 2006-07-01 |
| Filing Status | FILING RECEIVED |
Sponsor Plan History (Windstream Services LLC)
Sponsor-wide plan assets over time
All Windstream Services LLC plans reported in each filing year
- Latest sponsor-wide plan assets
- $1.7B 9.56451191366745% vs 2022
- 2024 filing year
| Year | Plans | Participants | Total Assets |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 2 | 12,867 | $1.6B |
| 2023 | 2 | 12,695 | $1.6B |
| 2024 | 2 | 10,852 | $1.7B |
Nearby 401(k) Plans in Arkansas
Peer 401(k) plans, same state, same plan type, ranked by total assets.
- Walmart 401(k) Plan $41.5B · 1,611,202
- Tyson Foods, Inc. Retirement Savings Plan $3.5B · 113,806
- Dillard's, Inc. Investment & Employee Stock Ownership Plan $2.9B · 30,034
- J.B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc. Employee Retirement Plan $1.3B · 39,077
- Arvest Bank 401(k) & Profit Sharing Retirement Plan $800M · 6,636
Scale composition for Windstream 401(k) Plan
Windstream 401(k) Plan reports $1.2B in end-of-year assets across 10,991 participants (0.010% of the $12.3T held by all Form 5500 filers in the national rollup , and 0.012% of 93,925,755 covered participants) - about $111,916 per participant (81% of the national average assets-per-participant) . Net income for plan year 2023 was $131M.
This plan identity (EIN 852049794, plan #009) has 3 Form 5500 filings on file from 2022 to 2024 , with end-of-year assets moving from $1.1B to $1.3B (+17.4%) while covered participants moved from 10,984 to 9,409 . Single-year sparse filers cannot show that trail.
| Plan year | Participants | EOY assets | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 10,984 | $1.1B | Open filing |
| 2023 | 10,991 | $1.2B | This page |
| 2024 · index core | 9,409 | $1.3B | Open filing |
The same sponsor also keeps 2 other index-core plans on PlainRetire:
- Windstream 401(k) Plan (401(k), $1.3B, 9,409 participants)
- Windstream Pension Plan (Defined Benefit (Pension), $438M, 1,443 participants)
Windstream 401(k) Plan's out-of-state 401(k) peers by assets and headcount
Outside Arkansas, the nearest 401(k) by assets is Promedica Health System, Inc. 401(k) Plan in OH ($1.2B); by covered participants it is Savers 401(k) Plan in WA (11,000 participants). Same-state nearby plans are listed separately above.
Closest by plan assets
Nearest other-state filings by tot_assets_eoy ($1.2B here).
- Promedica Health System, Inc. 401(k) Plan (OH) $1.2B · 17,938
- Marsh & Mclennan Agency 401(k) Savings & Investment Plan (NY) $1.2B · 9,739
- Cbiz, Inc. Retirement Savings Plan (OH) $1.2B · 6,370
- Hanford Operations and Engineering Investment Plan (WA) $1.2B · 4,306
Similar participant headcount
Nearest other-state filings by covered participants (10,991 participants); asset peers above are excluded.
- Savers 401(k) Plan (WA) 11,000 · 9 off
- Swbc Professional Employer Services 401(k) Plan (TX) 11,002 · 11 off
- Werner Enterprises, Inc. and Subsidiaries Employees' 401(k) Retirement Plan Savings Plan (NE) 10,975 · 16 off
- Constellis 401(k) Plan (VA) 11,011 · 20 off
DOL Form 5500 plan year 2023. Asset totals can differ widely at the same headcount; neither axis is a quality rating.